2011-10-05, 04:59
magao Wrote:This is the approach I've been wanting to try. A wiki would really help. Once that's done I've just got to work out how to integrate it into OpenELEC ...
A couple months ago I tried to build 10.1 with an external ffmpeg (the version included in mplayer2) but the APIs were pretty dramatically different, due to several ffmpeg updates. I concluded it was a significant amount of work.
Sorry for being the one spreading optimism, but it was awhile ago when I read a ticket in trac for 11.0 mentioning an ffmpeg upgrade; and I believe it was davilla who said in another thread that they had no intention of ripping out multithreading work when merging in the next ffmpeg, so I kinda figured a new ffmpeg was on the agenda for 11.0.
Considering the API changes, it seems like it's going to be a lot of work. It would be nice though if there could be a point update with a new ffmpeg, though point updates are pretty rare for XBMC.